CLASSICAL BRASIL
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DARIUS MILHAUD IN TRIBUTE TO RIO DE JANEIRO The French composer Milhaud was, like Villa-Lobos, took great inspiration from such modern masters as FaurĄé and Debussy. But after serving with Paul Claudel in the French consulate in Rio, Brazilian dance rhythms were a new source of ideas. A ballet, "Man and his Desire," as well as the piano pieces "Saudades do Brazil" were the results. "Saudade" means solitude, but it is often translated as yearning, homesickness, and "the blues". The term recurs endlessly in the poems and popular lyrics of Brasil, and Milhaud dedicated the short pieces jointly to various locales, such as Corcovado, Ipanema, and Copacabana, and also to French expatriots, including Claudel and Arthur Rubenstein. He called them his reminiscences of Brasil. Darius Milhaud was born in 1892. He studied with Charles-Marie Widor (who found him to progressive and adventurous) before becoming a member of "Les Six" in Paris, a circle of composers which also included Poulenc and Honegger and was associated with Erik Satie and writer Jean Cocteau. Later, after his time in Brasil, he accepted a position as composition professor at Mills College in Oakland, California. Before his death in 1974, he composed more than 440 pieces. |
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PIANO MUSIC, William Bolcom | |
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